Saturday, June 13, 2009

On state(s) of spleen and anxious voodling

" Were I ten centuries old, could I remember more?/A weighty chest of drawers, crammed with a random store/Of voodles , writs, songs, balance sheets,/And heavy skeins of hair rolled up in old receipts, /Hides fewer secrets, surely, than my sorry brain,/A pyramid and vault, whose corridors contain/More corpses than the potter's field, or late or soon./A graveyard, I, abominated by the moon,/Where, like a viscous worm, remorse thrusts out his head/To strike forever at my most beloved dead./I am an ancient Voodle filled with faded roses/In which a ruck of long-outmoded gowns reposes,/Where pastels all too sad and Bouchers all too pale/Alone breathe in the scents that uncorked flasks exhale./Nothing can be so long as days, limping and drear,/Under the heavy flakes of year on snowy year,/When ennui, fruit of dismal incuriosity,/Assumes the fearful scope of immortality..."All those voodle morsels slowly pile up, moans Sam Renseiw, depressed, realising the agony of quasi-perpetual remembrance... All a grand illusion, somehow - futile, senseless and cluttered: a warehouse of forgetful movables, without any (more) comments; Take a walk through the ordered scatter by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 694, 03'35'', 31.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a benevolent view on a tripple Renoir action. (Lum # 205, " re-viewing Renoir(s) ",01'00'', 7MB,,Quicktime/mov)

4 Comments:

like rattling around in your trusty mind..your fluers are surely not so very mal.

i started to get pretty gloomy watching this. and the tiny mooks came and lay next to me. "i'm watching a sad video." "it doesn't seem so sad." she countered...maybe.

and here, it seems that our conversation has turned out, finally, to be about none other than that: conversation. which means victory for both of us. and which should probably cheer us up immeasurably.

as voodles are more "show" than "tell", there remains quite a large margin for interpretation(s) and/or further projections.

the meta-blogger identity probably also might disturb a more clear-cut understading/interpretation of the seen... and yet the voodles seem to be relatively precise in conveying a general mood/feeling of the moment, that cannot realy be expressed fully in words.. i guess i would be a writer/blogger then, with a more elaborate prose...

i was in this (extraordinary) place anyway, and recorded some footage... and, yes, my mood these days is gloomy, so in some ways it spills over..

The observer observing observers observing an observation of Renoirs. The original footage is spectacular, and the two observers are charming. Perhaps the true dialogue of a lumiere is not sound or even image, but text and subtext :).

I think my music certainly aptly fit the mood of the footage....everyday objects - antiques especially - have an invisible history - as they carry on through time and space - the strange destiny of physical objects....

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